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- Czech PM meets with Austrian chancellor
- Police arrest Georgian recidivist at Prague’s international airport
- Vandals damage Václav Havel site in České Budějovice
Current Affairs
Czech Republic seeks to reset relations with Austria at higher level
Austria’s long serving Social Democrat head of government was in Prague
Thursday for his second meeting with Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka
in just over two months. The meetings are a sign that Prague wants to
elevate relations with Vienna to a much higher level.
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Czech plastic bottle crew “abandons ship” in face of German red tape
Earlier this month, a group of Czech adventurers set out on a 900-km
journey to the German port of Hamburg, peddling down the Elbe River on a
boat made of plastic bottles. But their voyage has come to an early end as
Germany’s river traffic rules made it impossible for them to continue.
The group now wants to complete their trip on dry land.
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Panorama
Clam-Gallas family correspondence provides moving testimony of the two world wars – Part I
Chris Kelly is the granddaughter of Edina Winkelbauer, nee Clam-Gallas
(1889-1970), a member of the old nobility who was a nurse with the Knights
of Malta on the Italian front in WW I. On her mother's death Chris
Kelly inherited a collection of more than 500 letters – correspondence
between members of her family during World War I and World War II. The
letters her grandmother sent from the front and others exchanged by family
members during World War II are a moving document of the times and reveal
how the wars changed her family’s fortunes and impacted the lives of her
ancestors. In an interview for Czech Radio Chris Kelly explains how much
insight she gained through this precious family legacy.
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Marketplace
South Koreans step up investments in Czech Republic
The Czech Republic has secured another major foreign investment with the
South Korean car parts maker Hyundai Mobis signing a deal to build a
factory outside Ostrava. It’s the third large South Korean investment
project in the Czech Republic – but new EU rules on incentives could make
it harder for the country to attract big foreign investors in the future.
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Current Affairs
Tough new sanctions against Russia likely to also negatively impact Czech firms
The European Union on Tuesday agreed on the toughest new sanctions so far
against Russia. The move comes after the country was charged it had
supplied heavy weapons to rebels in Ukraine and following outrage that
international investigators were still...
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MPs vote to raise cigarette prices in order to meet EU directive
The price of cigarettes in the Czech Republic is due to rise by up to four
crowns for a pack of 20. Wednesday’s approval of the price hike in the
lower house followed a fall in the value of the crown that left the Czech
Republic in contravention of a...
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In Focus
First woman rabbi Regina Jonas honoured in Terezín
Almost eighty years after her ordination, the world’s first woman rabbi,
Regina Jonas, has been honoured at the former Nazi concentration camp in
Terezín. Several of her successors, including the first American female
rabbi Sally Priesand, attended the...
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One on One
Close brush with death gave me chance to become known writer, says humourist Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher has a humorous column in the weekly Reflex that regularly
provides a highly amusing take on Czech life from a foreigner’s
perspective. The US-born author has had a host of other jobs in over two
decades in Prague, including radio DJ, bit-part...
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Sports News
Sports News
In Sports News this Monday: Czech König finishes seventh overall in debut
Tour de France – and is already looking forward to next year; champions
Sparta win opening game of new soccer season while Plzeň draw puts
pressure on manager Uhrin.
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Sunday Music Show
Michal Hrůza - From Ready Kirken to Kapela Hrůzy
Michal Hrůza is one of the Czech Republic’s most notable singers and
songwriters. The 43-year-old, who hails from Turnov, got his start in the
mid-1990s with Ready Kirken with whom he wrote numerous hits, before
moving
on to a solo career and performing with Kapela Hrůzy.
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Czech Life
Prague developer turns tour guide as Wenceslas Square planning battle heats up
Amid the tourist bustle of central Prague this week a tour with a
difference was taking place. Czechs turned up in their droves when
development company Flow East opened the doors to some of its historic
buildings. But the developer’s first initiative...
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